Thank you Tony, nice of you to comment, much appreciated.
Thank you very much, both! Regarding the “missing” heat shield: when I stripped the thick layer of ancient cloth insulating tape off the handle,...
Thanks again everyone for your kind comments. Jeff, many thanks for the advice about the aluminium control cock, which I had previously thought...
Thanks very much, Jeremy and Jeff! Yes, I tend to think the loop is an after-market modification. Jeremy, the tank has a shallow socket so I...
[ATTACH] I got this lamp from a friend. It was missing its heat shield, the handle was split and fitted back-to-front, and the vapouriser was a...
Hi Neil and Jeff, and thanks to both for the info. Gold it will be, then! I’ve even bought the paint. I’ll pop some pictures in the gallery when...
That’s very helpful Jeff, many thanks! It might be older than I thought. I am pretty sure that the socket is shallow and the GF control cock is...
Hi George. Whilst in the 1960s the then Southern Region of British Railways ordered a batch of standard X246 lanterns with tanks painted in...
I'm restoring a TL9A which I think is a 1960s model as it has the aluminium cock. It came fitted with the wrong short 606 vapouriser so I've...
Thanks, Neil! I did wonder. I'd never seen the insert of a threaded knob before. It still works though. Part of its history! Have you or anyone...
I have come to the same conclusion as many others, that the Tilley 500 was nothing more than a standard Tilley X246B fitted with a longer spigot...
The control knob on my example is a bit unusual, too: [ATTACH]
Here is my PL53, the wartime version with the steel tank. I have since re-sprayed it in the nearest colour to RAF blue that I could find, and...
Well I was lucky then... I've just obtained one of these for less than £6. It came minus a pump, and with a black hood. It's date stamped 461XA...
I did some figures along similar lines to Neil, and got similar (though not so repeatable) results as my light metering setup was much more crude....
The tip of the pricker wire is very very thin indeed, about 0.007", a bit like a bee sting, and almost invisible. It's possible for the very fine...
I have a wartime PL53 with steel tank and one-piece handle. The tubular female threaded nuts rotate on the ends of the handle wire - they have to,...
Just a quick update. Today I managed to remove the roll pin and control knob, fitted a new gland washer, reassembled everything and the leak is...
Thanks, David. Since writing, I've actually found one or two more images that seem to confirm your understanding.
I have an R1 (earlier model with wooden handle and wire mesh gauze 'mantle') and I am trying to find out which end of the spigot tube - the long...
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